| milometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, odometer |
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| minicomputer | (noun) a digital computer of medium size | - |
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| minister | (noun) the job of a head of a government department | - |
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| (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister of religion, parson, pastor, rector |
| (noun) a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador | Synonyms: diplomatic minister |
| (noun) a person appointed to a high office in the government | Synonyms: government minister |
| (verb) work as a minister | - |
| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| minster | (noun) any of certain cathedrals and large churches; originally connected to a monastery | - |
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| minter | (noun) a skilled worker who coins or stamps money | Synonyms: coiner, moneyer |
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| miter | (noun) a liturgical headdress worn by bishops on formal occasions | Synonyms: mitre |
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| (noun) the surface of a beveled end of a piece where a miter joint is made | Synonyms: mitre |
| (noun) joint that forms a corner; usually both sides are bevelled at a 45-degree angle to form a 90-degree corner | Synonyms: miter joint, mitre, mitre joint |
| (verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
| (verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
| (verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
| mnemometer | (noun) An outdated mechanical device used for presenting a series of stimuli to be memorized. | Synonyms: memory apparatus |
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| mobster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: gangster |
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| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| molter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: moulter |
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| monster | (noun) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus | Synonyms: teras |
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| (noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, devil, fiend, ogre |
| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monstrosity |
| (noun) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts | - |
| (noun) someone that is abnormally large and powerful | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, goliath |
| moonlighter | (noun) a person who holds a second job (usually after hours) | - |
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| moulter | (noun) an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair) | Synonyms: molter |
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| mounter | (noun) someone who ascends on foot | Synonyms: climber |
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| (noun) a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc. | - |
| muster | (noun) compulsory military service | Synonyms: conscription, draft, selective service |
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| (noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty | - |
| (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| mutter | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, muttering |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, muttering |
| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| myriameter | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to 10,000 meters | Synonyms: mym, myriametre |
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| myxobacter | (noun) bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste | Synonyms: gliding bacteria, myxobacteria, myxobacterium, slime bacteria |
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| nanometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one billionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromillimeter, micromillimetre, millimicron, nanometre, nm |
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| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| neglecter | (noun) a person who is neglectful and gives little attention or respect to people or responsibilities | - |
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| nester | (noun) a bird that has built (or is building) a nest | - |
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| (noun) someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it | Synonyms: homesteader, squatter |
| neurotransmitter | (noun) a neurochemical that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse | - |
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| neuter | (adjective) neither male nor female (of grammatical gender) | - |
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| (adjective) having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs | Synonyms: sexless |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine) | - |
| (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| newsletter | (noun) report or open letter giving informal or confidential news of interest to a special group | Synonyms: newssheet |
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| newswriter | (noun) a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media | Synonyms: correspondent |
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| niter | (noun) (KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive | Synonyms: nitre, potassium nitrate, saltpeter, saltpetre |
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| nonstarter | (noun) a horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered | - |
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| (noun) a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently | Synonyms: failure, loser, unsuccessful person |
| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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| northwester | (noun) a wind from the northwest | Synonyms: northwest wind |
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| nutter | (noun) a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad | Synonyms: wacko, whacko |
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| obstructer | (noun) any structure that makes progress difficult | Synonyms: impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, obstructor |
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| (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
| octameter | (noun) a verse line having eight metrical feet | - |
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| odometer | (noun) a meter that shows mileage traversed | Synonyms: hodometer, mileometer, milometer |
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| oedometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring the rate and amount of consolidation of a soil specimen under pressure. | - |
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| ohmmeter | (noun) a meter for measuring electrical resistance in ohms | - |
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| oldster | (noun) an elderly person | Synonyms: golden ager, old person, senior citizen |
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| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| orbiter | (noun) man-made equipment that orbits around the earth or the moon | Synonyms: artificial satellite, satellite |
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| ornithopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: orthopter |
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| orthopter | (noun) heavier-than-air craft that is propelled by the flapping of wings | Synonyms: ornithopter |
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| otter | (noun) freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur | - |
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| (noun) the fur of an otter | - |
| ouster | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ousting |
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| (noun) a wrongful dispossession | - |
| (noun) a person who ousts or supplants someone else | Synonyms: ejector |
| outer | (adjective) being on the outside or further from a center | - |
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| (adjective) being on or toward the outside of the body | - |
| (adjective) located outside | - |
| outfitter | (noun) a shop that provides equipment for some specific purpose | - |
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| (noun) someone who sells men's clothes | - |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| overnighter | (noun) a small traveling bag to carry clothing and accessories for staying overnight | Synonyms: overnight bag, overnight case |
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| (noun) a guest who stays overnight | - |
| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| oximeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that measures the oxygen in arterial blood | - |
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| oyster | (noun) marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters | - |
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| (noun) edible body of any of numerous oysters | Synonyms: huitre |
| (noun) a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl | - |
| (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
| pacesetter | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacemaker, pacer |
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| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacemaker |
| painter | (noun) large American feline resembling a lion | Synonyms: catamount, cougar, Felis concolor, mountain lion, panther, puma |
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| (noun) a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing) | - |
| (noun) an artist who paints | - |
| (noun) a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint | - |
| palmister | (noun) fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms | Synonyms: chiromancer, palmist |
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| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| parachuter | (noun) a person who jumps from aircraft using a parachute | Synonyms: parachute jumper, parachutist |
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| parameter | (noun) a constant in the equation of a curve that can be varied to yield a family of similar curves | Synonyms: parametric quantity |
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| (noun) a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data | - |
| (noun) (computer science) a reference or value that is passed to a function, procedure, subroutine, command, or program | Synonyms: argument |
| (noun) any factor that defines a system and determines (or limits) its performance | - |
| paster | (noun) an adhesive label | Synonyms: gummed label, sticker |
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| (noun) a workman who pastes | - |
| pater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for father; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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| paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| paymaster | (noun) a person in charge of paying wages | - |
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| pedometer | (noun) measuring instrument for recording the number of steps taken in walking | - |
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| pelter | (noun) a thrower of missiles | - |
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| (noun) a heavy rain | Synonyms: cloudburst, deluge, downpour, soaker, torrent, waterspout |
| pelvimeter | (noun) measuring instrument for performing pelvimetry | - |
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| pentameter | (noun) a verse line having five metrical feet | - |
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| perfecter | (noun) a skilled worker who perfects something | - |
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| perimeter | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: circumference |
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| (noun) the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary | Synonyms: border, margin |
| (noun) a line enclosing a plane areas | - |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| petter | (noun) a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one | Synonyms: fondler |
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| pewter | (noun) any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead) | - |
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| philter | (noun) a drink credited with magical power; can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it | Synonyms: love-philter, love-philtre, love-potion, philtre |
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| photometer | (noun) photographic equipment that measures the intensity of light | Synonyms: exposure meter, light meter |
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| (noun) measuring instrument for measuring the luminous intensity of a source by comparing it (visually or photoelectrically) with a standard source | - |
| piaster | (noun) a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria | Synonyms: piastre |
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| (noun) 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey | Synonyms: kurus, piastre |
| picometer | (noun) a metric unit of length equal to one trillionth of a meter | Synonyms: micromicron, picometre |
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| piezometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring high pressures | - |
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| pilaster | (noun) a rectangular column that usually projects about a third of its width from the wall to which it is attached | - |
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| plaiter | (noun) someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.) | - |
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| planimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring the area of an irregular plane figure | Synonyms: integrator |
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| planter | (noun) a decorative pot for house plants | - |
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| (noun) the owner or manager of a plantation | Synonyms: plantation owner |
| (noun) a worker who puts or sets seeds or seedlings into the ground | - |
| plaster | (noun) adhesive tape used in dressing wounds | Synonyms: adhesive plaster, sticking plaster |
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| (noun) a surface of hardened plaster (as on a wall or ceiling) | Synonyms: plasterwork |
| (noun) a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc. | Synonyms: cataplasm, poultice |
| (noun) a mixture of lime or gypsum with sand and water; hardens into a smooth solid; used to cover walls and ceilings | - |
| (noun) any of several gypsum cements; a white powder (a form of calcium sulphate) that forms a paste when mixed with water and hardens into a solid; used in making molds and sculptures and casts for broken limbs | Synonyms: plaster of Paris |
| (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plater | (noun) a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold) | - |
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| platter | (noun) a large shallow dish used for serving food | - |
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| (noun) sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove | Synonyms: disc, disk, phonograph record, phonograph recording, record |
| plessimeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: pleximeter |
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| pleximeter | (noun) a small thin metal plate held against the body and struck with a plexor in percussive examinations | Synonyms: plessimeter |
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| plotter | (noun) an instrument (usually driven by a computer) for drawing graphs or pictures | - |
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| (noun) a member of a conspiracy | Synonyms: coconspirator, conspirator, machinator |
| (noun) a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action | Synonyms: schemer |
| (noun) a clerk who marks data on a chart | Synonyms: mapper |
| pluviometer | (noun) gauge consisting of an instrument to measure the quantity of precipitation | Synonyms: rain gage, rain gauge, udometer |
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| pointer | (noun) a strong slender smooth-haired dog of Spanish origin having a white coat with brown or black patches; scents out and points to game | Synonyms: Spanish pointer |
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| (noun) an indicator as on a dial | - |
| (noun) (computer science) indicator consisting of a movable spot of light (an icon) on a visual display; moving it allows the user to point to commands or screen positions | Synonyms: cursor |
| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: arrow |
| polarimeter | (noun) an optical device used to measure the rotation of the plane of vibration of polarized light | Synonyms: polariscope |
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| pollster | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: canvasser, headcounter, poll taker |
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| polluter | (noun) a person or organization that causes pollution of the environment | Synonyms: defiler |
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| polyester | (noun) any of a large class of synthetic fabrics | - |
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| (noun) any of numerous synthetic resins; they are light and strong and weather resistant | - |
| (noun) a complex ester used for making fibers or resins or plastics or as a plasticizer | - |
| porter | (noun) a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley | Synonyms: porter's beer |
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| (noun) a person employed to carry luggage and supplies | - |
| (noun) a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars) | Synonyms: Pullman porter |
| (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, gatekeeper, hall porter, ostiary |
| (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
| poster | (noun) a horse kept at an inn or post house for use by mail carriers or for rent to travelers | Synonyms: post-horse, post horse |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, posting |
| (noun) someone who pastes up bills or placards on walls or billboards | Synonyms: bill poster, bill sticker |
| postmaster | (noun) the person in charge of a post office | - |
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| potentiometer | (noun) a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets | Synonyms: pot |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring direct current electromotive forces | - |
| pothunter | (noun) a nonprofessional archeologist | - |
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| (noun) someone who participates in contests in order to collect trophies | - |
| (noun) someone who hunts for food (not for sport) | - |
| potter | (noun) a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them in a kiln | Synonyms: ceramicist, ceramist, thrower |
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| (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| pouter | (noun) one of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out | Synonyms: pouter pigeon |
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| (noun) someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression | Synonyms: gloomy Gus, picklepuss, sourpuss |